Highlights
- Manchester United 2-1 West Ham: Paul Pogba scores twice from the penalty spot to seal a much-needed win for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as Felipe Anderson is denied a brace for incorrect offside call
- Manchester United get a much-needed win after Paul Pogba scores two penalties to down West Ham
- West Ham had the ball in the back of the net inside 10 minutes but Anderson's strike was ruled out for offside
- United were then awarded a questionable penalty in the 17th minute which Paul Pogba converted with ease
- Anderson did get his 10th goal of the season four minutes after the break following a David de Gea error
- The Red Devils were then awarded a second penalty which Pogba stepped up again to covert the spot kick
If Manchester United get half this amount of good fortune in the Nou Camp on Tuesday night, Lionel Messi and Barcelona don’t have a prayer.
Not surprisingly, West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini was more downbeat. ‘I am frustrated of course. We deserved more than this scoreline but football doesn’t always reward the team that played better,’ he said.
‘Unfortunately for us there were some decisions against us, very difficult decisions for the referee but with VAR I am sure this game would have been 1-0 to us because Felipe Anderson was onside.’
To rub further salt in the wound, Pellegrini felt Martial was offside in the build-up to earning the late, winning penalty, the second converted successfully by Pogba.
All that said, to Solskjaer’s credit he has injected a spirit into United since replacing Jose Mourinho that means dramatic escapes are always possible. He also seems to have persuaded Paul Pogba to abandon his self-indulgent stuttering run-up at spot-kicks.
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